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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1929.

CHINESE CHAMBER ROUND THE COURTS.

OF COMMERCE.

$1,000 VOTED FOR H.K. UNIVERSITY,

EXCHANGE TROUBLES.

A meeting of the Chinese Cham ker of Commerce took place it their premises in Connaught Rond Central yesterday afternoon, "Mr. Leo Yick Mui presiding and many members being present, p

Among the communications re- ceived by the Chamber was a wire from "Messrs. Moore and Lynch of the San Francisco Chamber of Com- merce, aboard the tourist vessel Malolo, which read as follows: "Greatly appreciate your cour- tesies. Greetings to your organisa tion, Moore and Lynch." A similar wire was also received by Mr. Ho Kwong, Chairman of the Twenty- four Merchants' Association,

The Secretary of the meeting in formed the members that a suitable reply had already been sent by the

Chamber.

Donation to "Vanity.

A letter from the Hong Kong University reminded the Chamber of their annual donation of $1,000 and hoped that this donation would receive the sanction of the meeting.

STOLEN CHAIN.

HISTORIC - MUD!

M. FAY'S BELLES LETTRES.

AMERICAN IDOLS WITH

FEET OF CLAY,

Pleading guilty to a charge of being in unlawful possession of a chain which was suspected of having been stolen from one of the ships that had berthed alongside the Kow. loon Godowns, a Chinese was fined 85 by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at (United Press Šidf Correspondent.) Kowloon Magistracy.

JUMPED INTO HARBOUR.

After having stelen two pieces

of wood from a timber yard in

Mongkok, a "Chinese who appeared before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy was stated to have jumped into the harbour but was arrested on the arrival on the scene of a Shantung sergeant. -

ARMS-AND THE WOMAN.

On the application of Detective Inspector-Fallon, n.Chinese woman who was charged before Mr. T. S. Whyte Suith at the Kowloon Magis. tracy with being in possession of two automatic pistols and 102 rounds of ammunition at a house in Wodsung Street, was remanded for one week for further enquiries. Mr. Leo d'Almada, r., appeared for the defence.

WOMAN WHO WANDERED.

[BY RALPH HEINZEN.]

A

HOW I FAILED AS NAVAL

A FLYER.

SLIPS, BUMPS, AND DIVES IN A PILOT TUITION TEST.

"BAD, VERY BAD,

[BY A "STAR" MAN.J'',

Paris-Bennie Franklin waS

The finals in the competition for self-satisfied cur-up and a spend- free tuition as air pilots, offered thrift once he tasted the life of the French court, George Washing ton was a bulboided old raan, and

by the National Flying Services at the Aero Exhibition, were held at Olympia recently.

Lafayette a spoiled son of a rich

Six men and six women had mother, wealthy enough to per mit him any fantasy, even going to

qualified for, the final tests, which fight for the colonists,"

That, at least, is the conclusion | were held under the supervision of of M. Bernard Fay, of the Faculty Lady, Bailey and Sir Selton

Holles Lettres

Clermont- Ferrand, perhaps the best known French writer of American history.

of

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He threw historie mud at the American idols with feet of of while lecturing at an exposition Franco-American historical art in the presence of Miss Anne Morgan, of the banking Morgaus and M. Andre Tardieu, French Minister of Interior.

Schoolboy EbroGE. Professor, Fay, has dived rather deep in memoires, correspondence and history contemporary with Lafayette and the Revolutionists and be admits frankly that those me who are school-boy heroes now were not so mach in their day. Time has put a patina on their came and fame, but he throws plenty of mud at the patina

First of the historical shocks de- statement that Benjamin Franklin, the simple Poor Richard of song and story became after having tast- The opinion of members was, CRUELTY TO CHICKENS. ett of the delights of life at the however, that the donation had Two Chinese, who were charged French court of Louis XVI. and been given yearly and there was no with causing cruelty to chickens by Marie Antoinette, quite--what in a reason why it should be withdrawn. carrying them suspended by the later vernacular would have been

One called a cut up. Whep put to the vote overwhelm-wings; were each fined 25. ing support for the motion to give man stated that the fowl was tied the donation was recorded.

by the market people

Mr. Ho Yiu reminded the Cham- ber of their financial position and remarked that the matter should be that she had already spent two Owing to her age and the fact investigated before passing the proposal. The University students nights in the cells, Mr. T. S. Whyte were sons and daughters of wealthy Smith, cautioned a widow, 53 years people and he thought that a better of age, who was charged with tres-livered by Professor Fay was the object would be the Chinese schools passing on the Government Planta managed by the Tung Wah Hos- tion near the Kowloon Rifle Range. pital.

Assistance Asked From Workers.

ANOTHER OPIUM CASE.

་་

WIS

Brancker,

The winning woman wa Miss B. Sale Baker, of D'Oyley street, Cadegan-terrace, W., a member of the victorious English ski-ing team who beat Poland in February of this year. 4

The men's prize was won by Mr. II. Henry, of Shaftesbury-avenue, W., who was a nuchanic and obser- ver in the R.A.F. during the war.

Grimm Reminders.

& MILITARY NOTES.

It is officially stated that over 2,000 boys are now being trained at Chepatow, Gosport, Catterick, Woolwich and other centres for technical work in the Regular Army. Next winter there will be vacancies for approximately 150 ware. Candidates for these vacan- cies must be between the ages of 34 years and 13 years 4 months on January 1, 1830, except those for training as masons, who must be between the ages of 15 years 8 months und 16 years 4 months on that date. They will be selected in November by competitive ex- amiration in English, arithmetic,"

ful candidates will secure, the op-

general intelligence. Success- portunity of spending three or four years in learning one or other of a variety of trades, including those of armourer, artifcor,, carpenter, draughtsman, fitter, und eignal operator. During their apprentice" ship the boys will be, maintained free of cost to their parents, and in addition will receive payment of 11d a day at the commencement of their training, with increases.

according to their efficiency up to a possible maximum of 15. 7. a day, these rates being for a full 7-days week.

Maj. O B Foster, M.C., hás been selected for command of the 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers, im succession to Licut-Col. 9. H. Kershaw, D.8.0., whose tenure ex-

When I visited the exhibition, writes a "Star" reporter, I deter-Fired on September 18. mined to make a last-minute entry in the competition. Walking into

The King has approved of the appointment of Maj. General Sir the enclosure, the first thing I saw was a light brown stretcher. A Alfred P. Blenkinsop as Colonel- Commandaat, Rayul. Army Medical few yards away was a complets Corp. Sir Alfred Blenkinsop saw illustrated representation of "How active servics at Sierra Leone, and to Get a Man into an Ambulance" in the South African (both medals with four clasps), and the Great Still, I climbed into the cockpit War, being mentioned four times. of the Reid Test apparatus My in despatches; promoted to major- hopes of becoming an aco" were general and created C.M.G. Ho soon dispelled. Every movement of Ens held several important ap- the joy-stick and rudderbar was pointments at home and in India, recorded by red and green discs, and was Director of Medical Ser and graphed to the 100th of a vices in Mesopotamin in 1917-19. second. And very bad, movements His elder brother, Maj. General

mine were.

My Many Faults. I was blinded by the sudden You have

He arrived in the simple costume of the Society of Friends with scanty hair, uncared for, streaming down his back, as we see in this A letter from the Cigarette

portrait and in this bust, axid the Workers Union, asked the Cham-

professor making the necessary hers help for the many workers Arrested by Detective Inspector allusions to the objects on view who were in financial difficulty Fallon, who searching for But very little later, as we see in Some 1,200 women workers had had suspicious characters in Nathan this etching, he had assumed the to be dismissed from the Nanyang Road following an armed robbers powdered peraque and the cour-Glare of the red light. Brothers Tobacco Factory owing to at Kowloon Tong, a Chinese appear tier's sword. Quaker that he was, he bad times and these people were ined before Mr. I. S. Whyte Smith is eternally depicted at that period great need of help. Members ex on a charge of being in unlawful as surrounded by a bevy of the foremost beauties of the French pressed every "sympathy with the possession of 40 taels raw opium. appeal and the matter is to be look. A fine of $1,200 with the alterna-court. History bears out this fact ed into.

to the tender sex nor was the ten Other letters were from the Chitive, of six months' hard labour in that simple. Ben was neither averse

default, was imposed....

der sex averse to him. nese Chambers of Commerce at Singapore and Penang asking for particulars of the holidays given in TRESPASS ON RIFLE RANGE connection with the National Day Festival on October 10.

Exchange Perplexities.

A long letter was received from a local firm, the Yue Yee Hong, who pointed out that the fall in the value of the dollar was adding to the troubles and losses already caused to trade by wars and civil disorder. They asked the Chamber to ex- press its views on the subject. The letter went on to deal with the ex- change problem at great length and finally left the members in a great state of perplexity as to ita mean ing.

After a lengthy debate it was decided to discuss the matter once

.1

Then: "You have stalled. You have nose-dived."

Finally: "You have turned

Sir Layton Blenkinsop, is the colonel-commandant of the Royal Army Veterinary. "Corps.

There

NAs

A

representative side-slipped," announced Squadron-

Cemetery, leader, G. H. Reid, D.F.C., who gathering at the funeral at Weston Devonport, of of 13, was putting me through my paces Mill He continued to intone an account Mr. Harry Williams,

Prince Street, where death at my dreadful acrobatics.

the age of 44 occurred ̈recent- When I hesitated, a fraction of a Mr. Williams formerly serv second in ringing over the stick, be ed as a bandeman in the Royal said: “If you had been going at Irish Fusiliers, and at the Royal 120 miles an hour, you would have Military School of Music, and fallen 170 feet with a bump."

during the Great War attained the. rank of lieutenant and won the M.O. For the past seven years he had been bandmaster of the Metro- politan Police Band, and brought the band to a high standard of But The test continued. I blew the efficiency. He was one of the best- entire contents of my lungs into an know instrumentalists in the Rev. A. S. Thomson instrument, which looked like a West of England, and exceedingly

popular. gas-metor

smoking!!! the Squadron loader. Too much (vicar of St. John's), efficiated at.

the funeral, and a close I put my head into a big bag. the service at the graveside the Bad, very bad. I sat in a white Metropolitan Police Bead gave an

with Me" chair and was spun round at an inspressive rendering of Abide agonising, rate.

Poor Old George W.1. Nevertheless, here we see him at Nantes, where he was obliged to go Two boys, aged ten and twelve to meet a delegation of this fellow respectively, appeared at Kowloon countrymen, and we find that with Magistracy on a charge of trespass a certain suddenness he has cast ing on the military rifle range on away his peruque and his sword the Taipo Road. Both defendants and become, Poor Richard. pleaded guilty. It was stated that later on, as this painting indicates. the boys were apparently sent by he has become once more a man of stone-breakers in the vicinity as the the world, petted darling of the elder people were invariably seen beauty of Europe's most brilliant to assist them to hide or climb over the hills whenever chased by the authorities. His Worship ordered each of the defendants to receive six strokes of the cane.

more at the Executive meeting of WOMAN'S SOLICITUDE FOR

the Chamber. It was hoped that

in the meantime other letters would be received on the subject. J

Messrs. Ho You and M. K. Do who took a prominent part in the debate both said that the question might be considered closed. The Exchange bud been thoroughly dealt with at a previous meeting and decisions arrived at which could not be altered.

The proposal that the letter be held over until the Executive meet ing of the Chamber was then pass

ed.

ANTHRAX FROM A FUR COLLAR.

SUSPECTED CAUSE OF A

WOMAN'S ILLNESS...

HER HUSBAND.

SMUGGLED A LETTER INTO

THE GAUL

court.

"Furthermore, Poor Richard'. was not so poor. He maintained one of the most luxurious of the fashionable villas at the super fashionable watering place Pansy, outside Paris, and at times entertained the cream of the court without stint."

of

As for Washington, the speaker referred to him as the most popu lar man in France as indicated by the earlier busts on view but after he had become headstrong and refused to receive Lafayetto he it depicted as in these busts, as old and ugly.”

The final shot of Professor Fay

A Chinese woman appeared be- fore Mr. A.-W. G. E. Grantham at a "idols with feet of clay" was Central Magistracy yesterday for when be declared that Lafayette an offence against the Prison Rens merely the richest young man gulations. Taking advantage of the At the court of Louis XVI. at the privilege accorded to relatives to see prisoners, she had passed a letter to her husband who was

moment of the American Revolu tion and hence could permit him-- self any fantasy he wished." He

awaiting deportation from theso declared that the interest of

France in the American Revolu- Colony.

tionists was simply a desire to sce Chief Warder McLeod said that the little Anglo-Saxon countrici the letter was sent between two overseas become clients of France. plates of food without the warders being informed of it. In the pre- sent case the letter was of a barm-

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less nature, being merely an expres- GAOL FOR A SOLICITOR sion of the woman's solicitude for her husband's Welfare." On that ac Blaydon medical authorities have count he did not wish to press the certified a woman livrig at Win-charge. Taton to be suffering from anthrax,

and it is believed that she may detention since the discovery of her The woman, who had been under have contracted the disease by offence, was discharged with a cau- handling a piece of fur

The woman recently sewed a furtion. collar on a coat for her sister, but this cont was never worn. When she was married, five months ago, the collar of her going away coat was trimmed with chinchilla fur,

CROWN LAND SALES.

MISAPPROPRIATION OF MONEY:

turtle.

"Bad, very bad!" said

Just the Man-For the Land, The Squadron-leader diamined me with promptitude. “You are just the man we want "-I hung on his words to keep out of the air."

"Men," he added," are coming cut of this test much better than women There are far fewer

pros-

pective women pilots Only noont 23 per cent. of men would make bad pilota Among women, the figure is considerably higher."

The two winners went at once to Hanworth air park for their firat lesson.

PLANS FOR ROBBERY OVERHEARD.

A "THRILLER" IN REAL LIFE,

of

E.M.S. Shropshire, the rew 10,000-ton cruiser, which has been built from the designs of Bir W. J. Berry Director of Naval Cón- struction, has arrived at the Nore on delivery from the works of Messrs. W. Beardmore and Com- pany, Dalmuir, where she was laid down in February, 1927. The Shropshire has been fitted with engines designed to propel her at equipped with eight 8in guns, a speed of 39) knots, and has been

four din. anti-aircraft guns, and four 3-pounder guns and four 2- pounder pom-poms." The esti mated cast of the Shropshire is close on £2,000,000, and sho is or- dered to be prepared at Chatham Dockyard for service in the First Cruiser Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet, in which she takes the place of the Frobisher. Capt. R. W Oldham, O.B.E., will commission the Bliropshire for her maiden term" of foreign service, and the will be manned by a crew from the Nore Naval Depot.

The name of Cattewater Royal What might have been a page from a thrilling crime story has Mount Batten The Cattewater is Air Force Base has been changed ta just been enacted in Paris. A po the local name for the tidal estuary lice inspector received a letter from

Sentence of three years penal an anonymous" findividual saying of the River Plym, and it appears servitude was passed by Mr. Justice that he was writing to ease his as such on all Admiralty charts, Hawke at the Old Bailey recently conscience. He said that whilst in but it is the name of the water on Charles Vincent Whitgreave, a cafe he heard two men laying only, and not of the land on either aged sixty, a solicitor in London plans for an attack on a jeweller side. It is therefore thought that and Hastings, who pleaded guilty in his shop, 92, Rus de Hiroli, Mount Batten is the more appro to the misappropriation of money Three police inspectors were acut centuries past Mount Batten bas priate name for the station. For belonging to clients.

to the shop and hid themselves be been the name of the spot pa which hind a curtain. At 2.30, which was the station is situated, and it is the hour mentioned in the letter, believed that it was originally ap two men entered the shop and ask-plied

" to the medieval keep ed to see some rings. Whilst one which surrounds the rock there. of the men closely examined the Since the days of the Ar etlier, standing behind, drew from made it has been known as his pocket a heavy bar bf steel, Mount Batten, corresponding with which he raised above his head. He Mount Edgcumbe on the Corn- was about to bring it down on the wall side of Plymouth Sound. As jeweller's head when one of the po"Mount Battan" it is marked on lice inspectors seized his hand. all charts, maps, and local guide- There was a struggle, but the two books, as well as in every histor

Mr. Percival Clarke, prosecuting, | At the Crown Land Office yes said that Whitgreave, who was ad- Dr. Howard Morrison, the local medical officer of health, said to terday two lots of land were sold mitted a solicitor in 1800, became an executor and trustée under the Cave: "I would strongly ad- by public auction. The first lot,

vise women who purchase furs, Inland Lot No. 2360 situated at the will of Father Bannin, of the Italian church, Hatton-garden. spcially of the cheaper kinds, to East of Inland Lot No. 9343, was

Father Bandia died in 1925, and, have them thoroughly disinfected sold to Mr. Chan Bing Choo, of before wearing."

65, Wong Nei Chung Road, for after various legacies, left the res sidue of his estate to the trustees 821,000. The upset price was $10,800. The land has an area of of the Italian church, Hatton-gar.

Se puede annual rental ir 625. and Whitgreave paid 2000 to them in about 4,000 square feet its den.

The deaths of two women, record ed last year, were attributed to trimmings Cases of the disease anthrax contracted from fur coat

timong men employed in handling hides have been recorded from time to time, and a few years ago a number of cases were traced to im ported shaving brushes. Stringent regulations are in force to prevent [this kind of infection.

Now Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1981 1025, and that was all they received, with an area of about 6,000 square Proceedings were started against feet was sold to Mr. Wong Yiubim in connection with the matter, Tung, of 43, Bonham Strand East, and in June. 1927 he was arrested at the uptet price 87,500. The land for contempt of court and sent to is situated at Aplai Bitect and has Brixton gaol, where he remained

for twelve month an annual rental of $34.

man, were arrested book, and by the renaming of the They were Spaniards and one had Royal Air Force Base there will be a loaded revolver in his pocket. It perpetuated a name rich in his- was found that their luggage had torical associations Csitewater already been deposited at the staBase came into existence at the bo tion and that they were all ready ginning of the Great War, and serv to leave Pari

ed a most useful purpose.